Blocked my Boss on Facebook for the sake of keeping my private life private... Now she's sad...

I had called in sick one day and didn't want her to see the obvious posts of me partying in the city when I was supposed to be "sick". This was about a month ago. She is an understanding boss but I feel like there should be a line between friends and superiors at work. She finally noticed and I told her I had done it by accident. Should I feel bad? Should I add her as a friend again?

**She's a great boss and very understanding. She just made me feel bad for deleting her...

If I learnt anything from all the recent FB articles (and I believe I learnt a lot) it's that your info is never actually private. So knowing that, how do you know she won't just pay Mark Zuckerbaby for the party pics?

In this specific case, he is actually correct. Instead of calling in fake sick, jus tell your boss you are feeling stressed and need to use a sick day to blow off some steam.

Generally speaking however, I believe the integrity comment was bullshit and we shouldn't be ashamed that we like to keep some aspects of our social lives private from certain friends/family/coworkers.

It all depends on how you want your relationship to be with your boss. Do you want her involved in your personal life? Do you even like her? If not than block her. There is not a perfect solution here. Will she look down on you for partying or is she the same way? Sorry this question is kinda complicated.

I like her. She's an awesome boss. I just don't want to have to explain myself. I suppose I could have just blocked her from viewing certain content. She used to party. She knows I party. She also knows that I'm in a band and that particular month I have been playing shows on the weekend like crazy, so when I'd come into work I'd be dead tired and grumpy from not getting any relaxation on the weekend. The entire month of April was like that. I guess that's my own fault for not picking and choosing my battles. I think she WOULD understand needing a personal day though...

No. But to cover your ass, tell her about all the scary things about Facebook you've seen recently. Tell her you've locked your privacy settings down and are encouraging all your friends to stop using FB out of concern for privacy, identity theft, phishing, viruses, and the bogeyman. Say you got sick of wasting so much time on something so shallow and non-productive.

She has NO IDEA about Reddit... nor would she ever understand it... I basically told her I was going through all my privacy settings and didn't want all my info shared and I must have accidentally deleted a few people. Oops!

You should feel (a little) bad about trying to cover up lying about being sick. You should not feel bad about protecting your privacy while not at work. She's your boss, not your best friend. You could tell her you feel that you would rather not be friends on facebook, that you feel as if you are being spied on while off the clock. That you are professional while at work, and are not professional while using social media, so mixing the two will cause tension.

I'm friends with my supervisors at work, but there are some coworkers/other supervisors/teachers that i refuse to let stalk me.

Funny that you mentioned that. The people I was with knew I was calling in. They were there at 7 am after we had stayed up all night giggling like fucking hienas in the background and one of the girl STILL posted something about the party... delete delete delete!! Idioths!

I supervise a worker at my job, and I seldom use FB except for tracking comedians & musicians. (Don't have any friends, really.) Anyway, she's really cool & once she found I had a FB account, she added me to her friend list. Frankly, it was really cool to use FB for what it was meant to do. Sadly, it didn't last more than 4 days, and she de-friended me. I was really crushed.